[95523] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 2.1.125 and PPP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Mernick)
Mon Oct 19 09:20:24 1998
From: Kevin Mernick <Kevin_Mernick@brown.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 06:33:48 CDT."
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:18:41 -0400
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> Has anyone gotten 2.1.125 to work with ppp? I've tried compiling it in as a
> module and actually into the kernel and no matter what t wont do it. No
> problems with 2.0.35 though, ppp version is ok, 2.2.3 so that shouldn't be
> it, so how bout anyone?
You need to be running pppd 2.3.5 with the recent 2.1.x kernels. The
reason is that the code uses a strcmp which decides that 125 < 16.
Obviously using strcmp is a bad way to compare numbers and this was
fixed shortly after 2.1.100 came out. The ppp-2.3.5 rpm is probably in
contrib on ftp.redhat.com and mirrors.
You should check the Changes file (in /usr/src/linux/Documentation) to
see if there are any other programs that you would need to upgrade.
I think that 5.1 doesn't ship with recent enough modutils, net-tools,
procps and procinfo. I may have missed some others, but at least this
is a start.
Hope this helps,
_________________________________________________________________________
Kevin Mernick
Kevin_Mernick@Brown.edu / kmernick@mbhs.edu
"You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always
quite the something you were after." --J.R.R. Tolkien
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